Articles in Camiguin Trip
001 – Flight to Cagayan de Oro and Bus to Balingoan
Thursday March 31, 2011
4:30 a.m. Manila Airport
It’s amazing that anyone can get through the process of flying from one country to another without losing something important. I do my best to prepare for these things, but what with fatigue, the complexity and the security systems at the airport, it’s impossible to keep track of things. At least I can’t. That I’m in the Manila airport …
002 – Camiguin and Jasmin by the Sea
Friday April 1, 2011 10:30 a.m.
Jasmin by the Sea
Camiguin, Philippines
It is the next morning now. Technically it is my second morning in the Philippines, but it is the first morning that I’ve woken up here. It is raining fairly hard and, in fact, has been raining all night. It started shortly after I went to bed and then never stopped. I guess the weather forecasts …
003 – Mambajao and My First Day on Camiguin
Friday, April 1, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Post day wrap-up, though I don’t know that I have enough energy to cover it all. All I did was go for a walk and explore the town of Mambajao, but that was enough for today. My bungalow, Jasmin by the Sea, is in the small barangay of Bug-ong. I still can’t pronounce that properly. It has the accent on …
004 – A Walk Down the Shore
Saturday April 2, 2011 8;40 a.m.
Jasmin by the Sea
Camiguin, Philippines
The rain came to an end at some point yesterday and today the sun is out. Luckily, the skies still have some wispy clouds scattered about to keep the full force of the sun at bay. There is a fair bit of wind and the sea is a little rough, so I don’t think I’ll be …
005 – White Island & Mantigue Island
Sunday April 3, 2011 12:30 a.m.
Jasmin by the Sea
Camiguin, Philippines
I was interrupted yesterday with the arrival of my dinner. I also had gotten up to take a picture of the hammock with the golden light of sunset on it. I was just thinking to myself that photographers call that the “magic hour” – the hour around dusk and dawn when the light is just perfect. …
006 – Motorcycling Around Camiguin – Tuasan Falls
Thursday April 5, 2011, 9:00 a.m.
Jasmin by the Sea, Camiguin, Philippines
Jasmin by the Sea rents motorcycles for 350 pesos a day. They are identical to the bikes that were for rent on Palawan. I’ve heard them called underbones, and they are somewhere in between a motorcycle and a scooter. They look like a motorbike and you have to change gears. However, there is no clutch. …
007 – Hibok-Hibok Volcano
April 6, 2011 – Camiguin
Jess and I made plans to climb Hibok-Hibok volcano the next day. I wasn’t positive I wanted to do that. It seemed like a lot of hard work for very little reason. And, to be honest, I wasn’t sure that given my poor physical condition I could even do it. Volcanoes, I know from experience, are very difficult to climb. They …
008 – Mantigue Island & the Giant Clams Santuary
Thursday April 7, 2011 7:05 a.m.
Jasmin by the Sea, Camiguin, Philippines
I have Mozart playing on my little speaker, water slowly coming to a boil in the pot, and a motorcycle sitting outside waiting to take me to some new small adventures. Hard to know how things could be any better.
There is one way I would improve on the situation – and that would be not …